Improvement in umbrellas



WITNESSS W. TETLEY.

Umbrella.

Patented Jan.26,1875.

NVENTOR Attorneys UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

WILLIAM TETLEY, OF PANA, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN UMBRELLAS.

Specification forming part of 'Letters Patent No. 159,230, dated January 26, 1875; application filed December 14, 1874.

T0 all whom it muy concern: A

Be it known that I, WILLIAM TEJLEY, of Pana,in the county of Christian and in the State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Umbrellas and Parasols; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompa nyin g drawin gs and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction of the ribs, the slide, and the head-piece of an umbrella or parasol, and the mode of connect-ing the same together, as will be hereinafter more fully described.

In the annexed drawings making part of this specification, Figure l represents a per spective view, and Fig. 2 a section with two detached parts.

In the figures, A represents the umbrellahandle, B the slide, and C the head-piece. The handle is made in the usual manner; but the slide and head piece are both made solid, but have grooves or slots cut in their peripheries to receive the ribs and braces. These slots are each crossed by stationary pins, under which the ends of the ribs and braces hook. D D represent the ribs, which are made of wire, their inner ends being hooked, as seen, and their Outer ends provided with an eye, as usual. About one-third of the length of each rib from its inner end the wire is turned around, as seen, to form an eye, the end of the wire continuing in the same direction, and both ends being on a suitablecurve.

The inner ends are hooked into the head-piece C, and the braces F F, which are provided with hooks at each end, are hooked into the eyes of the ribs at e e at one end, and into the slide B at their Other. 7

It will thus be 'seen that by the formation of the head and slide with their grooves and stationary pins or lugs, and the formation of the ribs with books at one end and eyes ate e, and also the formation of the braces F with hooks at each end, an umbrella may be formed or made, and repaired with great ease.

The umbrella made by this construction of parts will be stronger than that in ordinary use, and any one rib can be removed and renewed without taking the whole apart.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The runner and crown-piece of umbrellas or parasols, having the rim which receives the ends ofthe ribs and stretchers made solid, and provided with curved grooves and stationary pins or lugs, substantially as and for the purpose setforth.

2. The hooked braces F F, in combination with the slide B and ribs D D, all constructed substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 8th day of August, 1874.

WILLIAM TETLEY.

Vitnesses:

FRANK B. ALLBRIGHT, JAS. P. CHAPMAN. 

